LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Speaking at a reception in his constituency yesterday, tho Premier said that 75.000 men had left New Zealand and 10.000 were now in camp. ' The Government has ratified the recommendations of the Racing and Trotting Conferences in respect of reduction of racing, and in the coming season there will be 148 instead of 2*>2 days last year. At the Wellington Military Appeal Board, Dr J. P. Frengley, "who appeared for the Department of Public Health, said (the Post reports) the department did not desire to pursue the appeal lodged on behalf of Thomas Alexander Milroy, medical practitioner, Manaia. The appeal was accordingly withdrawn. It was mentioned that there was a petition from the residents of the district against the calling up of Dr Milroy, but Dr Frengley said that the district was adequately supplied with medical men. The appeal was dismissed. i For Chronic- T7hesx Complaints, 1 Woods' Great Peppermint Cure ls 6d, ' i <&2 Gd. —Adit. ,

; Somes Island! Why its nothing but >a health resort," said a sneaker ac the I meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Asj sociation at Wellington (says the WeiI lington Post). He advocated that when a returned soldier took uo a bit of rough land the Government should put half a dozen of the "gentlemen who are being kept over there by the Government" on to the section to do the work. "Let the soldier have a holiday in a way," he added; "it's up to the Government. ' "You may tell Mrs Derrv I have seen \ the Mam Camp of the New Zealanders : in training; and have met scores of them in London; and that the New Zea- . land men are a very fine lot of chaps, ! models of soldiery bearing and good ' behaviour." This is the testimony of the late Hon. F. E. Winchcombe, j M.L.C., who recently died in Bombay, ! in a letter to Mr W. H. Derry, District : Manager, A.M.P., Auckland. "I have : not come across one drunken or dis- ! orderly New Zealander. They do the ' Dominion every credit, these boys with the cow-puncher hats — God" bless 1 them!" Mr Winchcombe concluded. He ' was a pasenger by the P. and 0. liner Mongolia, when she sunk as the result of an explosion. J The Turin paper Stany?a published a statement that the gold cup given by ' the Kaiser some years before the war for a famous international motor race won by a F.I.A.T. car was offered by the F'.I.A.T. Company to the State to be melted as a patriotic contribution to the Italian gold reserve. When it was assayed it was found not to be gold. This has been proved to the satisfaction of the F.I.A.T. firm, which was naturally disappointed on learning how it had been duped by the Imperial donor. The cup, supposed to he worth ahout £1000, is not of gold, but of silver heavilly gilt. As compensation the F.I.A.T. firm has decided to make up the difference in value in adding a sum of 30,000f. to its gift. At a time^ when grain and foodstuffs generally rule high in price, the annual loss through depredations of rats is a serious matter. Still more serious, however, is the known fact that rats are distributors of certain diseases; therefore a steady war of extermination should ever be waged against the vagrant rodent. At Auckland, however, states the Star, rats are more numerous than was the case a year or two ago, especially in some of the suburbs. The city sanitary officers are exercising the greatest care in the matter, and the crusade against rats is being vigorously prosecuted. Ratepayers are supplied with poison by the city authorities free of charge upon application to the town clerk, so it should not be too much trouble for residents to attempt to exterminate the rats by laying down the stuff. "Jt is .gratifying," remarked the Mayor (Mr J. H. Gunson) "to be able to announce that the sanitaary officers report the general health *of the community to be good at the present time. It may he that the excessive rains we have experienced this winter by flooding the sewers caused the rats to go round private dwellings more than is usually the case. One thing the public may rest assured of is that the sanitary officers will leave no stone unturned to help to keep the rats under." The Lyttelton Times finds great fault with the Premier on the ground that his recent speech giving an account of the doings of himself and Sir Joseph Ward show that they squeezed too much out of the Imperial Government. It says: "The Prime Minister explained how an additional seveneighths of a penny a pound had been secured for th° commandeered wool and mutton, while a rise of only a i farthing a pound had been arranged | in respect of beef. The comparatively small increase for beef, he explained, i was due to the fact that the Argentine is a serious competitor. This means, of course, that the large additional price for mutton and lamb was secured because of the absence of effective competition. In other words, New Zealand took all the advantage that it could of the Mother Country's dire necessity. In regard to wool tbe circumstances disclosed by the Prime Minister do nothing to" diminish the discredit which the whole transaction has put upon the reputation of the Dominion. On the contrary, our shame is increased. France, we are told, was receiving for its wool 25 per cent over pre-war rates, and the British grower was receiving a 35 per cent advance, but as the market was rising it was considered that for the New Zealand clip a rise of 55 per cent over pre-war rates was a fair thing to ask. The position in regard to cheese is not less sordid. Britain offered a certain figure, and New Zealand stuck out for more and got more." Unfortunate Prime Minister! In other quarters he is accused of having sacrificed the interests of producers here as compared with what Canadians received. That the habitually prodigal person is, contrary to human experience, going to suddenly become habitually thrifty as the result of a thrift campaign, is a miracle that the more thoughtful of the thrift enthusiasts do not expect (says the Melbourne Age). That some persons, not confirmedly thriftless, may be assisted to thriftier" ways is the chief hope. At a meeting in Melbourne recently Mrs Fossett, a shopkeeper of 26 years' experience, plainly intimated that her hopes lay in the rising generation and in the proper teaching of thrift. She described her personal knowledge of a woman, who never had a higher income than £2 5s per week, who reared nine children comfortably, encouraged them all to marry, and provided for her old age herself. One of that mother's daughters, said the sneaker married a laborer who had much broken time, and her income never exceeded 30s a week. Yet she was rearing three children, and it was her proud boast that she had never owed any person a penny. She used the maternity bonus for its proper purpose—the emnloyment of a medical man, and the halance of the £5 she gave to her mother in return for nursemg. Our hospitals," said Mrs Fossett m conclusion, "are filled with women who were neglected at meternity because they spent the bonus on purposes tor which it was not provided." The remark was assentingly applauded by many present. *= •* »j Taiporohenui Red Cross Fund Social will be held at the residence of Mr Jas. Urant, Wednesday evening.*** Meeting Okaiawa Women's Patriotic Committee on Friday, 2.30. 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All fears of a famine in butter a**e ; 110w at an end (says the Australasian). ' r Although the winter has hardly be-nm ( production is already increasing. Only \ about 13,000 cases are now left in the i pool unsold, and these stocks are like- , y ito b.e absorbed. An unsettled tone ! has been imparted into the business by " the enormous stocks held in New Zea ' ] land. Market authorities are afraid of :' panic-selling commencing in New Zea^ I land, which could not fail to bring i" prices down in Australia, A „fl;e sh lustration of the treach-1 ■ cry ot the Greek ex-King is afforded by i: feir Arthur Evans, president of the Brit ! isn Association, who (writing in the '• Aew Europe) says:—"lt is not so long since a Royal mail bag was intercepted on its way to the German lines, in which, together with a family letter to tne JVaiser, were enclosed plans of our tf. -defensive works mi the Suez lhe details of this discovery j arc we l known in Athens, though it is ' said that the British Foreign Office ; did its best to hush it up." the iookeS Home was injured Ba^H^fnr Cently (says the Hawke's gay Herald) his contortions were frightK*l^ 8-. He seemed to fall right horse H? *** knocked «*eral y W i Z aa v"conscious immediately., but despite this stood on his head over hl^ b-! + \ H* d legS stiff and roSS o^ei. He aid this several times in sue tS a& tbe Sig¥ ,f It iet a Quarter of an hour afterwards he was walking away between ■to°be rrt?r? la^ hing- W*^t -ems +L if tI7 e ll Sanation is this:—When the bay fell he had in his mind the idea of rolling out of the way. He was strnel insensible in the fall, but liL m" continued working as 'his mind kd| reeled, or as nearly as they could man. .age for bruises This accounted foi ?fe •Contortions which were for all the : world like those of a decapTtated fSf. ■ nJtl building up of a large reservoir on the Upper Murray above Albury ? 01!? 0f^ lle things to be dealt with _ by the Murray Waters . Commission (.stated a recent message from Melbourne to the Sydney Morning Herald) J_rom the engineering point of view the best site is at a point iust below the junction of the Murray and the Mitta Mitta Rivers. Here there is a good ! rock foundation, and a dam could easily be built which would hold 1,000 000 acre feet of water. The biggest reser{voir m Australia at present—Barren Jack—holds 750,000 acre feet, while , the Sugar-loaf Reservoir, now under ; construction on the Uoner Goulburn will hold 918,000 acre feet if the plans are earned out in their entirety. The biggest dam in the world—that at Jfliephant Butte, on the Colorado River (United States America)—holdis iust ove r 2,000,000 acre feet, and the Assouan dam, on the Nile, which has l Jli St ly «nlarged, now holds ! about 2,000,000 acre feet. The Murray I ; <-am would hold 1,200,000,000 tons of water. j Dr. Truby King, in a recent lecture on food in war time, said that the t question of the real essentials of nutrij ment was of the utmost importance i i Ihe men who were fighting in the great European war were not fighting for territory. They were mostly fighting for food and clothing, for iron, for copper, and K>he means of men, for order, for JiAnpire perhaps, but principally for food and clothing. The lecturer then showed a diagram which gave the nutritive values of various foodstuffs as fol_ jows:—Flour, proteids 10 per cent, sugar 15 per cent., fat 1 per cent, re! mainder water; cheese, proteids '37 per cenfc., fat 25 per cent., sugar 1 per cent., remainder water; steak, proteids ; 20 per cent., fat 5 per cent., remainder | -v.ater; milk, proteids 4 per cent., sugar 5 per cent fat 4 per cent., remainder > water; potatoes, sugar 19 per cent,, proteids 1 per cent., remainder water * ' turnips, proteids 1 per cent., sugar 5 i per cent., remainder water. The cheapest foods at present prices, so far as he could calculate, were bread and cheese J Three-penny worth of bread contained ' as much nutriment as tenpence worth ! I pL?eeSe and three killings worth of It is difficult (says the Australian' correspondent of the Otago Daily I limes) to convey an adequate idea of j the problem that confronts the Com-1 monwealth Government to-day in relation to wheat, which also involves the question of shipping. Since the outbreak ot war, everything possible was done to stimulate the production of wheat m Australia. The wheat harvest doubled and trebled, and the Government, to stop profiteering, commandeered the wheat. Wheat pools were formed, and the Government borrowed millions of money in order to pay all the wheat producers a fair price for then* wheat while it was still lying in Australia. Then came the Jieavy losses of shipping by submarines, with most embarrassing results fo r the Commonwealth Government. Mr ±lughes has now made the alarming f¥o%?(Z\ that <thT are no less than lwcmoM? t T hea> "P* 1 to about 140,000^00 bushels, stored in Australia. He also makes the gloomy announcement that the prospects for obtaining shipping are so poof that he soo'ooT^6^ to s£ ift more than dUO,OOO tons hefore the end of the year, leaving no less than 3,200 000 tons on hand when the new harvest begins to come in. When (a_rain ? h \t g + f H? ghes> ** » Po"ntid S o aS tnat the largest quantity, of wheat shifted from AiLtraS m pre-war days, when the world's ?9nn annn t? nnaKe *"¥ availa°K was I,AKj,OOO tons and that for years after peace is signed there must be a shortage of tonnage, and when it is also pointed out that the Australian farmers are being paid for this wheat as it comes into the ''pool/ it can heleen tnat a financial disaster of great magnitude threatens Australia. First the wheat has to he kept in good, marketable condition for a period running mto years; second, millions of money :Jave to be found wherewith to pay l2?m. eat ; farm. ers ' and the Commonwealth must wait for repayment until ! the wheat can be marketed; third, shinping has to be found. P "Happiness lies in health."—Curtis. Health depends largely upon warding off common cdß-plaints, such as coughs and colds, and for this purpose Baxter's Lung Preserver is unrivalled. Colds of any kind soon vanish when this famous r«emdy is used. Take a few doses at , the first sign of a cough and quick reJ lief will follow. Baxter's Lung Preserver benefits hundreds of persons every day; it can do you good, too! I Get a 1/10 bottle to-day and learn why , "Baxter's" has been the public favorite ; for fifty years. Money cannot buy a ; better remedy. Sold by all chemists and stores. —Advt. I i

A dance will be held in the Manaia Town Hall to-morrow evening, the proseeds from which are to be devoted to ;he Hawera Soldiers' Cluh. It is ex>ected the attendance will he large. The Nightingale Dance, to be held it Opunake to-morrow, in aid of the led Cross Fund (writes a corresponlent) is attracting considerable atten:ion. The committee is doing every- i ;hing possible to ensure a record at- j tendance. Progressive euchre will be j provided for non-dancers, and a waltz- i :ng competition will take place during 1 ihe evening, for which substantial prizes will be awarded. The usual good music and good floor should bring forth a bumper house. The member for Patea, Mr Pearce, has gK-en notice to move that there be laid before the House a return showing—(l) The number of gallons of beer brewed each month and the amount of duty paid each month since the new system of taxation of beer was introduced; (2) the amount of duty paid each month and the number of gallons brewed each month for twelve months prior to the new system being introduced; and (3) the amount of tax per gallon paid on beer before the new system was introduced. The takings last Saturday at the Red Cross Shop, when the settlers of Ararata and Turuturu road were in charge, will be published later, as there are still some donations to come in. The result of the various competitions were as follows: The sheep weighed lOO^lb, and was correctly guessed by four gentlemen, Mr A. Murdock, of Okaiawa, being the winner in the draw. Mr J. Lash won the turkey, which weighed 101b looz., having been the lucky winner out of seven who guessed the correct weight. Four pounds was the weight of the smokers' outfit, which was guessed by Mrs Lee and Mrs Pearson, the latter winning the draw. Mr R. J. Linn Avon the o-bys' suit, and very kindly returned it to be sold. Six people tied for Mrs Lindberg's cushion, which weighed lib lOoz, and Miss Cowper won the draw. Mrs Traver's cushion was won by Miss J. O' Connell, and weighed 21b 2oz. There were 100 skeins of knitting ootton in the quilt. Miss Dawson and Mrs A. Larcom guessed the correct number, the ■ latter winning the draw. A special meeting of the EgmoniWanganui Hunt Club was held at Waverley on Saturday. Mr J. E. Palmer, who presided (the ir're'ss reports) explained that the meeting had been called to consider what should be done with regard to carrying on the business of the club. The hunting season was over, and the huntsman was going into camp on the 25th of this month, and something would have to be done with the hounds. The books showed that there were 723 members in all, counting both honorary and active members. The club was well represented at the front, 29 members being there or going. They would have to find ways and means to meet expenses. The club had lost their annual race meeting at Waverley, and he had called the members together to see what was to be done. Mr Higgie considered the best way to carry on was to ask for further assistance from the Wanganui, Egmont, and Waverley Racing Clubs so that they could keep the club going for th,e boys who were s?way fighting for them. He hoped all the members would be kept financial while they were away. Mr Macfarlane said they could draw about £126 4s 8d on the bank overdraft, and he considered that about £200 would be required to carry on till next season. Mr Symes proposed that the Wanganui, Egmont and Waverley Racing Clubs be asked for an additional £50 each. Seconded by Mr Bourke- and carried. At the presentation of scholarships, medals, and prizes won at the commercial education examination of the London Chamber of Commerce recently, the Duke of Connaught observed that after the war we should have to arm ourselves with all possible knowledge to promote the commerce of this ooun_ try and the Empire, and he knew of no more important work than the suitable education of those who were going to take a leading parjfc in that commerce. : Many of them must begin as cl.erke. It had been stated that twenty-five oi-twenty-seven years ago half the clerks , m the City of London were foreigners; ! and he fancied many of them were Ger_ j mans. They were glad to learn that the proportion was now reduced to 5 per cent., but he believed that it ought to be reduced to nil. England should be tor the English, and if our education were up to the standard Englishmen would get all the employment. We did nqffc want foreigners to get it; they had plenty at home. Too much work that we should do ourselves got into the hands of foreigners. This largely resulted from want of suitable education, and also, he feared, from want of apph cation. Sometimes English people? clever and active as they might be were a httl e inclined not to give so much application as the foreigner' did Education must be not only of a high standard, but suitable, and every encouragement should be given to those who struck out a line of their own and tried to perfect themselves in that< par : ticular walk along which they intended , to moye. After speaking in warm terms of appreciation of the work which ' the committee of the London Chamber ot Commerce was carrying on, the Dvk c of Connanght said he had been struck S£n m^Cana^ ™to the great intent tfe cfe c m comm-ercial education, rrinf^! there- is no Permanent greatness to a nation except it is based upon morality. I do not tare tary greatness or military renown. I care for the condition of the people amo ng whlJive p^^^^l castles, great halls, stately'mansions do not make a nation.—John Bright.